Bertha Nance, 60, has been in Milwaukee for almost 40 years. But the first time she used a computer was 15 years ago when she helped her grandson with homework and even then, she struggled to use it. “I was intimidated by computers,” she said. “I don’t really like...
Organizers of the Summerfest music festival are adding new programming to its annual technology showcase, which preludes the weeks-long concert series.
Microsoft, Foxconn, Northwestern Mutual and Direct Supply were just some of the big-name companies to make headlines in Milwaukee in 2019.
Milwaukee-area students were taught 10,300 hours of code as a part of Milwaukee’s “Hour of Code,” a NEWaukee and Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition initiative that promotes tech skills among the youth. The Hour Code runs during Computer Science Week, which is Dec. 9 to Dec....
Matt Smith reports on how well Wisconsin is doing in getting kids trained in computer science.
While many details around Foxconn’s plans for Wisconsin have remained fluid since the Taiwanese manufacturing giant’s contract was approved in 2017, we now know two of the specific products the company plans to assemble in Mount Pleasant.
Dr. Dennis Brylow, professor of computer science in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, has received nearly $2 million in a National Science Foundation collaborative research grant to promote computer science education among teachers in...
Maryland technology services provider TEKsystems is leasing space at The 42, creating as many as many as 145 jobs in downtown Milwaukee. The Hanover, Maryland-based company announced this week it is expanding into Milwaukee in leasing 15,300 square feet at The 42, a...
Technology surged forward when the U.S. government invested heavily in science and engineering in the 1960s to get humans to the moon. Now, 50 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface in July 1969, some of the work in UWM labs has the potential to make...
Five southeastern Wisconsin small businesses have been awarded grants from the Ideadvance Seed Fund. Established in 2014 by the UW System Center for Technology Commercialization and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., Ideadvance funds the entrepreneurial efforts...